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<span id="command:subdirs"></span><h1>subdirs<a class="headerlink" href="#subdirs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<p><span class="versionmodified deprecated">Deprecated since version 3.0: </span>Use the <span class="target" id="index-0-command:add_subdirectory"></span><a class="reference internal" href="add_subdirectory.html#command:add_subdirectory" title="add_subdirectory"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">add_subdirectory()</span></code></a> command instead.</p>
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<p>Add a list of subdirectories to the build.</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>subdirs(dir1 dir2 ...[EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL exclude_dir1 exclude_dir2 ...]
        [PREORDER] )
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<p>Add a list of subdirectories to the build.  The <span class="target" id="index-1-command:add_subdirectory"></span><a class="reference internal" href="add_subdirectory.html#command:add_subdirectory" title="add_subdirectory"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">add_subdirectory()</span></code></a>
command should be used instead of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">subdirs</span></code> although <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">subdirs</span></code> will still
work.  This will cause any CMakeLists.txt files in the sub directories
to be processed by CMake.  Any directories after the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PREORDER</span></code> flag are
traversed first by makefile builds, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PREORDER</span></code> flag has no effect on
IDE projects.  Any directories after the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL</span></code> marker will
not be included in the top level makefile or project file.  This is
useful for having CMake create makefiles or projects for a set of
examples in a project.  You would want CMake to generate makefiles or
project files for all the examples at the same time, but you would not
want them to show up in the top level project or be built each time
make is run from the top.</p>
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